Sailing Ships Quotes

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and ports! We're sailing again!

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Just take ease of interchange between people. Your email is of course faster than letter - on the other hand the transition from sailing ship to telegraphs was far greater than the shift from the postal service to email. That was a fabulous change. If you sent a letter to England, instead of waiting a couple of months for a response you got it instantly. That's a huge change. Every one of these changes of course increases opportunities and also increases means of control and domination.

Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the quartermaster of a sailing ship! He must stand at the very stern, with an unobstructed view of the sails. When sailing "by the wind" his eye is glued to the weather-side of the uppermost sail; he keeps it drawing a trace of wind, but never lets it fill.

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.

Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.

Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.